[f. as prec. + -AL.] = prec.
1767. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (1774), 33–4. The fierce illapse of passion roused the whole fabrick of his mind, and his native ferocity being highly exacerbated, he vented not his wrath in a reciprocation of reproaches, but having instantaneous recurrence to fistical ratiocination, bestowed a violent percussion on the corpulent Grocer’s nasal promontory, which, in a moment, suffused with a sanguinary streams his plenilunar resplendent countenance, and tarnished his gold laced waistcoat.
1823. Blackw. Mag., XIV. July, 65.
| Fists and the man I sing, who, in the valleys of Hampshire, | |
| Close to the borough of Andover, one fine day of the spring-time, | |
| Being the twentieth of May, (the day, moreover, was Tuesday,) | |
| Eighteen hundred and twenty-three, in a fistical combat, | |
| Beat, in a handful of rounds, Bill Neat, the butcher of Bristol. |
